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Museum, and much regretted. Mrs. Baird was almost 
continually ill and the Professor himself did not escape 
from various attacks of illness. 
Baird had not succeeded in interesting Congress in 
his proposed seaside school of Biology or Laboratory at 
Wood’s Hole. After his arrival there for the summer work, 
he had better success with private liberality. 
Wealthy men of Boston, Oliver and Frederick Ames 
and Montgomery Sears among them, offered the necessary 
funds. S. H. Scudder came down to Wood’s Hole to 
discuss his plans for a scientific weekly; which resulted, 
by the aid of the guarantee of Alexander Graham Bell, 
Major J. W. Powell and others, in the issue of the now 
well-known journal called “Science.” 
The proposed Fisheries exhibit at London, England, 
in 1883, had already been the cause of much preparation, 
and the exhibit was made with the usual success. On the 
19th of April the Henry statue was inaugurated with appro- 
priate ceremonies. [The summer was passed at Wood’s 
Hole, and the steamer “‘ Albatross’? began her notable 
explorations of the fauna of the Gulf Stream region under 
Captain Tanner. The following spring she entered on the 
task of exploring West Indian waters. Another exposi- 
tion, at New Orleans this time, called for much work and 
many conferences. ‘The Professor suffered much from 
illness during 1884, and Mrs. Baird’s condition was 
deplorable. However, work went on, whenever possible 
and even when it might seem to an impartial observer 
impossible. The Professor’s brother Samuel, long in 
delicate health, died October 12th. 
The building at Wood’s Hole, where most of the Fish 
Commission force had been quartered during the summer 
work, had been destroyed by fire and not rebuilt, and the 
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